номер 2, страница 101 - гдз по английскому языку 8 класс учебник Wetz, Pye

2. 📀3.26 Read and listen to the text. Check your answers in exercise 1.

What will we eat in the future?

By 2050, the Earth's population will be about ten billion. This means we will need to increase food production to feed almost three billion more people. But how can we do that without destroying the planet?

In the past, whenever we needed to produce more food, we simply cut down forests or ploughed grasslands to make more farms and ¹_______. ²_______ has caused the loss of whole ecosystems around the globe, including the prairies of North America, the Atlantic forest of South America and some of the steppes of Central Asia. We can no longer do this.

Scientists believe one solution to the problem is vertical farming. This is a method for growing ³_______ indoors in a highly controlled environment. The vertical farms, which will be in ⁴_______ in urban areas, will use new techniques, such as hydroponics and aeroponics, allowing farmers to grow plants without any ⁵_______.

Another solution is genetically modified food. Scientists are trying to create 'super plants' which will grow faster and require less water, ⁶_______ or pesticides. To do this, they change the genes of the plants' ⁷_______. They can do the same with animals, too, and they have even managed to grow meat in labs. In the near future, a single cell from a turkey or a cow will be enough to make a trillion burgers and one day, lab-grown meat might taste just like meat from real farm animals. But will people eat it?

Some scientists are worried about the possible effects of genetically modified food on people's health, so they are trying to find ways to make better use of the resources we already have. Insects, for example, are a great source of ⁸_______ and they don't need as much space or water as farm animals. Aquaculture, or ocean farms, could also provide a solution to the future food crisis.

Прочитайте текст и заполните пропуски (1-8).

Ответ:

1. this – этот

2. process – процесс

3. crops – сельскохозяйственные культуры

4. buildings – здания

5. soil – почва

6. fertiliser – удобрение

7. code – код

8. protein – белок